ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: BRIAN FUATA + MICHAEL MORAN

Image: Wrong Solo, Collaboration between Brian Fuata and Agatha Gothe-Snape, 2009 - 10

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: 
19 OCTOBER - 18 NOVEMBER 2012

During their residency, artists Brian Fuata and Michael Moran will be collaborating towards an exhibition to be held at The Gallery in The Lock-Up from 25 January, 2013. With a background in performance and sculpture, Fuata and Moran will produce a new series of time-based performances and installations. The focus of these events will be text, the body and the culturally loaded spaces that are art galleries and museums.

EXHIBITION: 
25 JANUARY - 10 FEBRUARY 2013

PROGRAM: AAA NEWCASTLE OPEN HOUSE 2012

UPDATE 15 OCT: AAA NEWCASTLE OPEN HOUSE 2012 IS SOLD OUT.

For the first time, Newcastle will have the opportunity to inspect a series of modern architect designed houses in the inner suburbs of Cooks Hill, The Junction, Bar Beach and Merewether.

Newcastle Open House has morphed from the previous AAA (Australian Architecture Association) successful Newcastle Open events held in 2007, 2008, 2009. These Opens involved discovering the delights of a broad range of buildings; commercial, cultural and residential in the CBD. Up to 25 architecturally significant city buildings were explored by the public under the guidance of the architects.

AAA’s 2012 intention is to carry on this tradition but concentrate on residential buildings located in the inner-city suburbs. Book now to register, numbers are limited. 

WHEN: Sunday 11 November 2012

(Registration at 9am at the Centennial Park Pavilion, opposite 134 Bruce Street)

COST: $50 for adults and $25 for students, $80 and $50 including lunch respectively.

REGISTER: Return your completed booking form with payment to The Lock-Up (90 Hunter St, Newcastle). Booking forms are available to download here, or from The Lock-Up .

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: KURT SORENSEN

Image: Port Jackson 1857: Dunbar #1, c-type photograph, 2011

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE:

21 SEPTEMBER - 14 OCTOBER 2012

Sorensen's work reflects on colonial era European interactions with the Australian environment and the often misplaced confidence in the settlers ability to tame their adopted landscape.

EXHIBITION:

5 OCTOBER - 21 OCTOBER 2012

Sorensen's photographic exhibition depicts the wreck sites of colonial era maritime disasters including the Dunbar at Port Jackson in 1857 and the Cawarra wreck at Newcastle in 1866. The Dunbar and Cawarra are forever linked by tragic coincidence.

On the night of Thursday 20^th August 1857 the ship ‘Dunbar’ was approaching Port Jackson. A fierce storm was raging and last sound crewman James Johnson heard before the ship crashed into the cliff was a cry of ‘Port your helm!’, but it was too late. Johnson was washed off the deck and up onto a rock platform. Johnson was not rescued from his platform until August 22^nd due to the heavy seas. On a night when 122 souls were lost, James Johnson was the only survivor.

James Johnson went on to become the lighthouse keeper at Nobby’s at the entrance to Newcastle Harbour. In 1866 Johnson saved the sole survivor of the Cawarra which was wrecked on a sand bar in a fierce storm off Nobby’s. The purpose of my residency in Newcastle is to create an accompanying series depicitng the wreck of the Cawarra.

OPENING:

6PM, FRIDAY 5TH OCTOBER 2012

EXHIBITION: ATLAS

Image: Chris Cottrell, Glacier Tracer 2010-2012, Video Still.

EXHIBITION:

01 SEPTEMBER - 30 SEPTEMBER 2012

Join four emerging contemporary artists in their attempts to record, recreate and reimagine the world around us. Influenced by the theories of Foucault, Baudelaire and Debord, the artists examine how a ‘mapping impulse’ drives our understanding of the places we occupy.

Artists: Chris Cottrell, Evelyn Kwok, and Marilyn Schneider.

Featuring the collaborative workshop outcome of Walking the Digital City by Josh Harle, as part of the Critical Animals 2012 program.

OPENING:

6PM SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2012 

 

EXHIBITION: ENGAGING NEWCASTLE

Image: by Conor Ashleigh

EXHIBITION:

10 AUGUST - 28 AUGUST 2012

Documentary Photographer, Conor Ashleigh, explores two weeks in the life of Newcastle Communities, celebrating the diversity and vitality of our region, from our local Somali families to our hardworking volunteers and our iconic surfing community.

OPENING:

6:30PM FRIDAY 10 AUGUST 2012

ARTIST TALK:

11:00AM SATURDAY 11 AUGUST 2012